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🔎 Daily True Crime Podcast | Criminal Psychology | Ongoing Trials | Expert Analysis Multiple new episodes every day! Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski is your ultimate daily true crime podcast, bringing you real-time updates on criminal investigations, high-profile trials, forensic breakthroughs, and psychological deep dives into the minds of killers. 🎙️ Hosted by veteran journalist Tony Brueski, we go beyond the headlines, featuring exclusive insights from FBI agents, forensic experts, criminal

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14:43

D4VD Arrest — What Investigators Had on Burke

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2026/04/20

LAPD bypassed the grand jury process entirely. No indictment. No criminal complaint. Detectives went directly to a judge and secured an arrest warrant for David Anthony Burke — known professionally as D4VD — on suspicion of taking the life of 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez. The question investigators had to answer wasn't just whether they had enough — it was what pushed them over the line after seven months of building a case.The evidentiary picture paints a grim timeline. Tracking data

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84:29

Valerie Mack's Son Was Six When She Vanished — He's...

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2026/04/20

Benjamin Torres lost his mother when he was six years old. Valerie Mack disappeared in 2000. Her dismembered remains were found in Manorville that same year and went unidentified for two decades. Rex Heuermann has now pleaded guilty to her murder. But for Torres, the admission that ended the criminal case opened something else entirely — a wrongful death lawsuit naming Heuermann, his ex-wife Asa Ellerup, and their daughter Victoria as defendants.The complaint alleges the two women knew about or

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42:17

IBLP's Survivors Are Still Recovering — And IBLP Is...

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2026/04/19

She couldn't choose what to eat. Not indecision — a total systems failure. Every choice she'd ever made had been routed through a chain of command that no longer existed. That's what leaving the Institute in Basic Life Principles looks like for the people who grew up inside it. Not a clean break. A slow collapse of identity, faith, and function that takes years to rebuild.Survivors describe marriages entered through courtship systems that eliminated independent evaluation. Educations that left them

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51:33

Anna Kepner's Stepbrother Indicted for Murder — The...

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2026/04/19

Security cameras showed one person entering and exiting the stateroom that night. Anna Kepner's younger brother was outside and reportedly heard violent sounds coming from inside. When Anna's body was found the next morning — under the bed, wrapped in a blanket, covered in life vests — the medical examiner ruled it a homicide by mechanical asphyxiation.Anna was eighteen. A cheerleader from Titusville, Florida, weeks from graduation, planning to join the Navy. Her father Christopher Kepner had

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36:57

Heuermann's Plea Was Strategy — The Wrongful Death...

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2026/04/19

Every pre-trial motion denied. Whole genome sequencing ruled admissible. All charges consolidated into a single trial. Rex Heuermann's legal team had nothing left. So on day one thousand after his arrest, the man who spent decades planning how to avoid getting caught planned his exit from the justice system the same way.During a confidential proffer session, Heuermann raised Karen Vergata — a woman he had never been charged with killing. Her death was folded into the plea. No separate prosecution

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60:07

The Duggar Investigation Is Widening — And Kendra Is...

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2026/04/19

One arrest set off a chain reaction that hasn't stopped. Joseph Duggar faces life felony charges in Florida after allegedly admitting — twice — to molesting a child who was nine years old during a 2020 family vacation. He and Kendra face separate Arkansas charges after investigators searched their home and reportedly found bedroom door locks installed on the exterior. Officials have declined to release full court records, citing an active investigation. CPS has reportedly conducted follow-up visits

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57:37

Kendra Duggar Is Caught Between Two Systems — And...

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2026/04/19

A family portrait went up on the Caldwell family's page without Kendra in it. No explanation. No statement. Just a photograph with a space where their eldest daughter used to stand. Paul Caldwell launched a GoFundMe describing an urgent displacement situation — housing costs, moving expenses. The family that raised Kendra is reportedly being pushed out of their home. And the family she married into is reportedly directing her legal defense.Kendra faces eight misdemeanor charges in Arkansas — four

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34:25

Nancy Guthrie Is Still Missing — And the Sheriff...

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2026/04/18

The doorbell camera footage from the night Nancy Guthrie vanished was declared unrecoverable by the Pima County Sheriff's Department. The FBI produced it roughly ten days later. That single detail tells you everything about how this investigation has been run — and who's been running it.Nancy Guthrie, 84, was taken from her Tucson home in the middle of the night. Blood was found at the scene. Her pacemaker disconnected from its app in the early morning hours. A masked figure was captured on

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49:37

Duggar Family Communications Exposed — And the...

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2026/04/18

The private messages coming out of the Duggar family tell a different story than the public statements. Jim Bob's first written communication to Joseph after his arrest on child molestation charges centered on God's forgiveness — not the alleged victim. Kendra described herself as "disappointed" on a monitored jail call. Anna Duggar, whose husband Josh is serving a federal sentence for possession of child sexual abuse material, put money on Joseph's books. Austin Forsyth cautioned Joseph about

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27:05

Heuermann's Phone Trail, Taunting Calls, and a Family...

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2026/04/18

A burner phone traveled from Massapequa Park to Midtown Manhattan on July 12, 2009 — the exact route between Rex Heuermann's home and his office. Hours later, Melissa Barthelemy's phone traveled that same route in reverse. Melissa had told a friend she was meeting a man. She never came back. For the next five weeks, someone used her phone to call her 15-year-old sister Amanda — describing the killing in graphic detail. Always under three minutes. Always from crowded Manhattan locations. Always

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34:47

Heuermann's Guilty Plea and the DNA That Made It...

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2026/04/18

Investigators followed Rex Heuermann for months through Manhattan before a discarded pizza crust gave them everything. That abandoned sample — recovered legally from public garbage — produced a DNA match to a male hair found wrapped in burlap around Megan Waterman's remains on Ocean Parkway. One connection. That match generated the warrants for Heuermann's home, his devices, and the digital trove prosecutors say reveals the most meticulously documented serial killing case investigators have

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49:02

Cruise Ship Murder And Gilgo Beach: The Evidence...

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2026/04/17

Two active federal-adjacent cases are moving through courtrooms on opposite coasts, and in both, the evidentiary record is reshaping what accountability looks like for the people standing closest to the accused.In the Anna Kepner case, unsealed federal records reveal that the accused — her sixteen-year-old stepbrother — signed a written waiver requesting adult prosecution on charges of first-degree murder and aggravated sexual abuse. His defense counsel co-signed. Ship surveillance reportedly shows

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19:03

Five Years Later and No Trial for Larry Millete

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2026/04/17

Maricris Drouaillet stood in a Chula Vista courtroom on January 28, 2026, and told Judge Enrique Camarena that her parents wake up every morning still waiting for justice for their daughter. She begged him not to grant another continuance. The defense cited personal family losses. The judge granted it. Again.This is Episode 5 of a five-part Hidden Killers series on the Larry Millete case. It covers every delay between the October 2021 arrest and the current trial date of May 11, 2026 — the

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16:18

Asa Ellerup: Willful Blindness and the Heuermann...

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2026/04/17

The civil lawsuit filed against Asa Ellerup does not accuse her of murder. It accuses her of something a jury may find just as difficult to forgive: choosing not to know.Benjamin Torres — who was six years old when his mother Valerie Mack was allegedly killed and dismembered by Rex Heuermann in 2000 — has filed a wrongful death complaint naming Heuermann, Ellerup, and their daughter Victoria. The suit alleges that one or both women knew of, concealed, or deliberately avoided learning material facts

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24:02

Jesse Butler: The Wall Built Around These Two Victims

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2026/04/17

There were two people in the room when the Jesse Butler plea was finalized. Butler's defense team. And the Payne County DA's office.Everyone else — the victim, her mother, her attorney, a tribal victim services advocate assigned to the case — was outside the wall. And this week, over three days of sworn testimony in a Stillwater evidentiary hearing, every one of them took the stand to say it.Jesse Butler pleaded no contest to eleven felony counts last year — among them attempted rape, rape by

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23:26

The IBLP Machine Is Still Running and No One Stopped It

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2026/04/17

Bill Gothard didn't build a church. He built an infrastructure for political and cultural influence — and it's still functioning.His plan was called the Joshua Generation. Take the best children from his homeschool network, train them inside his system from birth, and deploy them into government to reshape America. This wasn't aspirational. It was operational. Mike Huckabee, Rick Perry, Sarah Palin, and Sonny Perdue all appeared at IBLP events or publicly supported Gothard. A congressman chaired

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26:50

D4VD Behind Bars: The Evidence LAPD Couldn't Wait On

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2026/04/17

David Anthony Burke — the TikTok star and recording artist known as D4VD — was arrested on April 16 by LAPD Robbery-Homicide for the alleged murder of Celeste Rivas Hernandez. He's being held without bail. No indictment. No criminal complaint. A probable cause warrant signed by a judge before the DA ever weighed in.For seven months, the case stalled on one question: how did she die? Celeste's remains were found in the front trunk of a Tesla registered to Burke — decomposed, placed in cadaver bags,

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17:00

Anna Kepner: Surveillance, Concealment, and the...

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2026/04/17

The evidentiary picture in Anna Kepner’s case is narrow and deeply specific. Ship surveillance reportedly shows no one other than the accused entering or exiting the cabin. Anna’s body was allegedly found concealed under a bed, wrapped in a blanket, covered with life jackets. The alleged concealment itself is a significant evidentiary detail — it suggests awareness of what had occurred and a deliberate attempt to delay discovery.Prosecutors have framed this as a crime that emerged without warning

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16:23

Anna Kepner: What the Unsealed Federal Records Reveal

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2026/04/17

The federal case against Anna Kepner’s sixteen-year-old stepbrother is now unsealed — and the details inside those records raise questions that go well beyond what happened in that cruise ship cabin.A federal grand jury indicted the accused as an adult on charges of first-degree murder and aggravated sexual abuse. Court documents confirm that the accused signed a written waiver requesting adult prosecution. His defense team co-signed it. That is not a routine move. Defense attorneys do not let a

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17:30

Beyond Nancy Guthrie Part 4 | Adam Walsh:...

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2026/04/17

In the Nancy Guthrie investigation, the evidence collected in the first hours — the DNA from inside the home, the doorbell camera footage, the physical items left behind — is either going to solve this case or it isn't. The determining factor will be whether the people who handled that evidence from the very first moment were equipped for the responsibility. The Adam Walsh case is what happens when they aren't. And it's the most devastating evidence failure in modern American criminal history.In

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